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and the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, and of every
other power enabling Us in that behalf, do make the following Regulations,
that is to say:
"Article I.—Article I. of the Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulations,
1908, shall be revoked : and those Regulations shall be altered so that they
shall have effect, with the substitution for the Article so revoked of the
following Article, namely:—
Revocation of
Article I. of
former Regulations
and
substitution
of altered
Regulation.
"Article I.—In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention
appears—
"Interpretation."
"(a.) Words importing the masculine gender include females;
"(b.) Words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural
include the singular;
"(c.) Expressions referring to writing include references to printing
and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form;
"(d.) The expression 'cattle' includes a bull, cow, ox, heifer, calf,
ram, ewe, wether, goat, and kid;
"(e.) The expression 'pig' includes a boar, cow, and hog;
"(f.) The expression 'meat' means pork, the flesh of cattle, any other
edible part of a pig or of cattle, or a substance, compound, material, or
article of which pork, or the flesh of cattle, or any other edible part of a
pig or of cattle is an ingredient;
"(g.) The expression 'foreign' used in relation to meat means
brought from a place situate elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, the
Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man;
"(h.) The expression 'Official Certificate' used in relation to foreign
meat or in relation to a box, case, receptacle, or package containing
foreign meat, means a certificate, label, mark, stamp, or other voucher
which, by a notice published in the London Gazette at any time during
the period of twelve months beginning on the First day of October, One
thousand nine hundred and eight, or which, by a notice published in the
London Gazette after the expiration of that period, is declared to be
admissible in the manner, to the extent, and subject to the rules and
conditions, prescribed in that notice, as evidence that the cattle or pig
from which the meat is derived has been certified by a competent
authority in the place of origin to be free from disease at the time of
slaughter, and that the meat has been certified by the like authority to
have been dressed or prepared, and packed with the needful observance
of all requirements for the prevention of danger arising to public health
from the meat as an article of food; and, for the purposes of this